The ethereal light tone is pale pink, and the curtain is inverted and the screen line is lightly entangled.

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Light, in the dark forest, drooped down the branches one by one.

It was a long, crystalline ribbon of light, shimmering with a faint pink light, hanging neatly from the dark branches to the ground, swaying gently in the wind, like a dream. Some small markings that are completely irregularly distributed are wrapped around the bands of light, but they do not dull it because of these lines.

Like the most beautiful stage lighting effects, these slender bands of light penetrate the foliage layer and leave dappled shadows on the ground, and as they sway in the wind, these pale pink spots on the ground also move, intermingling and weaving into beautiful patterns.

Dingdingding...... Dingdingding......

In the distant forest, there seemed to be some kind of light music, playing regularly with the rhythm of the wind, almost in harmony with the rhythm of these brilliant bands of light dancing with the wind. The jumping colourful glow accompanied by crisp and melodious music makes the area as mesmerizing as a real stage set.

Gently reaching out and pulling away an inverted band of light in front of her, as if lifting a curtain, Xinglan stepped into this beautiful forest. The brook continued unhurriedly through the glowing forest, its width neither increasing nor decreasing, and occasionally a few tiny fish no more than a centimeter long leaped out of the water merrily, making a faint splash.

The bloody battlefield and the huge fallen tree left a deep impression on Xinglan, and when she found some rudimentary planks scattered on the ground nearby, it confirmed that the people who had died here in large numbers were probably the Moon Prayers.

With long silver-white hair, a belief in the Silver Moon, familiarity with the characteristics of various plants, and a strong adaptability to living in the forest, it is easy to associate the legendary race that lives in the forest: the elves.

However, this brutal interracial civil war proves it: the Moon Prayers are not the kind of elves who love peace and are incredibly kind to their people and animals. Such an incomparably peace-loving race may exist, but it is definitely the kind that has developed to the point where it has almost no natural predators and satisfies material needs...... It was almost only the races of the middle and late communist periods that were able to do it. For a primitive civilization that is still struggling to survive, they have no qualifications to show mercy to others.

Can there really be a paradise that is indisputable on the planet today? Xinglan didn't know, but she was sure that the forest she was currently in was definitely not this kind of place, where a large number of lives continued to fight to the death. While ordinary animals will fight each other for food, territory, and mates, intelligent creatures have even more reasons to fight, whether it is faith or hatred, or even simply eradicating a potential threat, it may be the cause of a racial civil war, and the killing is far from stopping.

"It's like raising Gu...... Only by constantly fighting each other can we promote the progress of the entire civilization more quickly. Xinglan walked by the river, looking at the shallow stream, the light bands hanging from the branches of the trees emitted a faint halo, shining her figure on the surface of the stream, "These willow-like hanging bands of light are really quite beautiful, and they are a wonderful area that can be called a tourist attraction." ”

These drooping bands of light are not illusory rays of light, nor are they elongated animals hanging from tree branches, nor are they elongated clusters of bacteria...... They are not even a unique tree with a unique appearance and glowing branches.

It's like a golden vine wrapped around the trunk of an iron tree, these beautiful pale pink glowing lines...... Or they should be called by their scientific name: cord flower, which is also a parasitic type of special plant.

It is called a curtain sunflower because it droops like a curtain, but the top part looks like an elongated anemone, a glowing anemone that turns upside down, and the topmost root is firmly attached to the branches of ordinary trees, holding these bands of light in place.

Not like many vines scattered on different trees, there is a large area here that is almost entirely under the realm of the sunflower, and these beautiful plants can be seen on every nearby tree, and their parasitics do not seem to have caused much damage to these trees. Those faint pink glows make these curtains look very striking in the dark night, and walking between these bands of light seems to eclipse even the stars and moons in the sky.

"These stripes...... It's not the stripes of the plant itself. As if she had suddenly discovered something, Xinglan looked at the bands of light swaying in the wind in front of her with some surprise, and the irregularly distributed fine markings on the surface of the curtain sunflower did not seem to be as simple as simple stripes, because they ......

"It's constantly moving? No, this is not the physiological change of the curtain sunflower itself, but ......" Xinglan reached out and pulled up a piece of light that hung down from the curtain sunflower, and the small dark stripes on it seemed to come to life all of a sudden, and they began to move closer to the position of her hand at a speed visible to the naked eye......

"These are...... Parasite? Frowning, Xinglan suddenly let go of the hand that grabbed the curtain sunflower, and threw this light band directly at the tree trunk, hitting it hard, and even faintly saw some dark streaks being thrown out from it.

Xinglan realized that these parasites that looked like stripes were not completely dark, and even they themselves emitted faint fluorescence, but the brightness of these fluorescences was many times worse than the brightness of the curtain sunflower, which made them look like dark stripes that did not emit light at all...... Just like why sunspots look black on the surface of the sun, once they leave the curtain and fly into the air, you can clearly see these faint small bands of light scattered in the air.

"They don't just cling to the surface of the curtain sunflower...... Xinglan casually grabbed a piece of curtain sunflower again, stroked it gently, and then quickly released it before those parasites could react, she didn't feel the outline of those insects on the surface of the curtain sunflower, "It can emit a faint fluorescence, and at the same time, it is a slender line, so it can be called a fluorescent nematode." ”

Despite their appearance, these glowworms are not wrapped around the surface of the light bands. These drooping bands of light are able to emit light because they are home to a large number of luminescent bacteria living in the tissue fluid inside, and the outer surface is a nearly completely transparent cell membrane. These glowworms live inside the tentacles of the light bands, and they are able to swim freely in the glowing tissue fluid, and from the outside, they appear as if they are attached to the surface of the light bands.

Just like a firefly glows, the glow of a curtain sunflower is a cold light source that does not produce much heat, so it will not cause much damage to the fluorescent nematode due to temperature changes. Xinglan felt that the relationship between the two should not be a simple parasitic relationship, but probably a symbiosis, because the curtain did not try to erase these fluorescent nematodes, and generally speaking, plants that were parasitized to this extent would not live in such harmony with the parasitists.

Perhaps just like the flame fish guarding the sea tree forest, the glowworm also guards these curtain sunflowers, and whenever Xinglan touches those light bands of the curtain sunflower, a large number of glow nematodes will bite through the transparent cell membrane on the surface of the curtain sunflower and rush towards her body with a momentum that does not hesitate...... Moreover, Xing Lan felt that this kind of fluorescent nematode was very likely to be poisonous, and once it was attacked by so many fluorescent nematode swarms, the cumulative power of the toxins could not be underestimated.

It's no wonder that there haven't been any larger animals since entering the area, and even the ubiquitous insect chirping in the forest has been weakened a lot. Xinglan looked up at the dense glowing tentacles of the curtain sunflower on the trees around her, and then checked her body, and sure enough, she found a lot of glowworms that were so small that they could be easily ignored, but even if they were numerous, it would be difficult to have any effect on the mechanical body, and the toxins would naturally be of little use.

It's also interesting to talk about this relationship, the curtain is dependent on other trees to survive, and the glowworm is dependent on the curtain to survive, and this layer of relationship forms an interesting ecosystem.

"Time is getting tighter." Xinglan continued to walk along the stream, silently calculating the time in her mind, "If you want to rush back before dawn, you must leave enough time to return." ”

A faint sound of wind sounded overhead, and the familiar shape told Xinglan that it was a few ghost rats that were slicing through the woods, and these little creatures who could only barely use the wind to soar were not capable of real power flight, and there was no high enough place near them to fly over the entire distribution of curtain sunflowers at once...... They must have landed on trees with sunflowers on the way, and it is very likely that these unsightly ghost rats have evolved the ability to not be afraid of fluorescent nematodes over a long period of time, and most flying animals will never choose to stop and rest in such a place, which is too dangerous.

"Anyway, you can go on a little further, and it would be a shame not to go." Xinglan muttered, walking all the way in the direction of the stream, she didn't know what else lay ahead, but it was this kind of unknown that was worth looking forward to, "You must turn around and go back in half an hour, otherwise you will miss the time." ”

She planned to follow the direction of the stream to see where it would eventually join the other currents, and perhaps follow the stream all the way to a wide river nearby. For the remaining half an hour, she had to quicken her pace, and whether or not she could find the end of the stream, she had to return to where the clouds and rainfoam were, as had been agreed before the departure: she must return there before dawn.

"The main settlement of the second race is really exciting~"